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WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY The X Golf team in full swing see page 8 Vegas fun for uncleragers see wge 6 2 .LAS VEGAS. F V A O A WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2006 wsusignpost.com VOLUME 68 ISSUE 69 C ,3 3:.'3 G3I35 Panel to discuss suicide The Social Work Department is sponsoring a suicide awareness and prevention seminar today at noon in the Shepherd Union Building Wildcat Theater. A five-member panel will discuss the signs a suicidal person exhibits and explain how to help someone who is threatening to commit suicide. Election packets due today Weber State University Student Association elections packets are due today at 4 p.m. in the Student Association office Room 250 in the Shepherd Union Building. As of'Tuesday, four students had submitted packets, but the office has given out hundreds of them. Wildcats United is the only registered party. Weber State University hosts faculty forum Faculty members will display their work at the second annual faculty forum, "A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Activities" on March 2 in the Shepherd Union Building. Posters, papers and performances will be presented from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All seven colleges will be represented. F.AnnMillner.WSU president, and Michael Vaughan, WSU provost, will speak at the ceremony. Faculty, staff, students and the general public are invited to attend. For a complete list of the presentation schedule, visit faculty.weber.edu forum. WSU sponsors conference for women A series of presentations and workshops will be held Saturday, March 1 1 from 8 a.m. to 1 :30 p.m. during the Aspire Higher in the Game of Life conference. The conference costs $10 per person. The topics for discussion include leadership, dating and relationships, scholarships and financial aid, time-management and creating a home-based business. The seminars are designed for women of all ages. Women in attendance will have the opportunity to win a $500 scholarship. Poet, playwright and actor Carol Lynn Pearson will be the keynote speaker. She will perform her one-woman play "Mother Wove the Morning" Saturday, March 1 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Shepherd Union Building Wildcat Theater. The price of admission is $10. A free reception will be held Friday, March 10 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Universe City Gallery, 2556 Washington Blvd., Ogdcn. The conference is sponsored by eight organizations, including WSU's Services forWomen Students, Women's Studies and the WSU Student Association. For more information or to register for the conference, call 626-6090. 1 . II 10 T ft j Joe Cravens yells at a referee during a men's basketball game earlier this season. Cravens was released from his duties as head coach of the basketball team Monday after coaching two back-to-back losing seasons. He has two years left on his contract and will be offered another position within Wildcat Athletics. Cravens out after second losing season By Jon McBride sports editor The Signpost After two consecutive losing seasons, and a last-place finish in the Big Sky Conference, Weber State University men's basketball Head Coach loe Cravens was released from his duties Monday morning, along with much of his coaching staff. Although many factors are involved in the decision of letting a coach go, WSU Athletic Director Jerry Graybeal said that it was just this final weekend of play that added "finality" to the decision. "As a coach you strive for consistency, and you strive for winning that's the bottom line," Graybeal said. "As coaches, you try to win all of the time, but there is a mark of consistency that can provide stability. Unfortunately, in the last couple years we haven't maintained that." Consistency was especially a factor in this last season as the Wildcats started off the season winning five straight games, then losing six straight games, followed by three straight wins, A view of the Green River as it runs through Dinosaur National Monument. The monument is located near Vernal, Utah and bridges the border to Colorado. The two major rivers that flow through the monument, the Green River and the Yampa River, are threatened by exotic species, controlled burning and other forms of human intervention, according to Hal Crimmel, WSU English professor and Dinosaur National Monument researcher. WSU professor shares views on Dinosaur National Monument's Green, Yampa rivers By Jason Staley managing editor The Signpost English professor Hal Crimmel filled the Weber State University Alumni Center Monday widi more than 50 audience members to hear his presentation "A Place of Rivers: The Canyons of Dinosaur National Monument." Crimmel was February's Weber Historical Society speaker. Crinimel's presentation was about the importance, the history and die troubles of die rivers at die national OS IS0 li then seven straight losses, four straight wins and ending with four straight losses. The roller coaster of emotions and success meant tire Wildcats did not make the Big Sky tournament for the first time since 1981. But consistency wasn't always a problem for Cravens. The 2002-2003 season will never be forgotten. In that season he led the Wildcats to a Big Sky title, a perfect record in Big Sky play and he was named Coach of the Year. He will also be remembered for being a part of the infamous upset over the University of North Carolina in the first round of the 1999 NCAA tournament. Former Weber State center Joey Haws was a part of the 1999 team and said Cravens played a significant part in that game as the assistant coach. "He played a major role in putting a game plan together the defenses, the scouting," Haws said. "As an assistant coach I respected him greatly because he never got put of line." Haws was at the coaches' luncheon on Monday where the monument. Crinimel's appreciation for die national monument began because ofhislove for rivers and in trying to get to know Utah, he told die audience. The other thing diat interested him about die place was that it was a cold desert widi an extreme temperature flux from 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer to minus 40 in die winter. "It is not what most people diink of when you think of desert; it is cold desert," Crimmel said. "I said to mv friend Rex Burrow, 'Rex, I had n u OA announcement was made. He said it was the first time he had been to the luncheon in two years; he just decided to go on that specific day, not knowing there were any plans fo' an announcement. He was visiting with some acquaintances and was shocked at the news. "It's a tough situation, it's a tough business to be in and in sports in general, college or pro, you've got to win, that's the bottom line," Flaws said. Sean Moore was another former player of Cravens in 1999. He said it was sad hearing the news but said even with the bottom line of winning, he has taken away from the game more than that. "After you're around basketball for a while you kind of forget the wins and losses you had with guys, but you always remember the relationships you build," Moore said. Cravens' relationship with Moore affected him a great deal. Moore is now the head basketball coach at St. Joseph Fligh School in Ogden. Moore said Cravens is See Cravens page 9 have a desire to go to Mongolia (another cold desert).' I le said, i Ial, why would you want to go to Mongolia? Just go to Wyoming.'" Throughout the presentation, Crimmel tossed historical anecdotes about the area. Most of the stories were about the John Wesley Powell expedition down die Colorado River drainage. Other stories included oudavvs such as Butch Cassidy and die Sundance Kid, who hid in the area of Brown's park in Dinosaur National Monument. Outlaws hid out in die area because it was close to diree states, so if die local law enforcement was after die oudaws, die outiaws could slip into anodier state. "Brown's Dark was also attractive because Student senate remembers Elton By Nate Bringhurst campus affairs editor The Signpost This week the Weber State University Student Association Student Senate meeting started and ended in the same way with a moment of silence. The first moment of silence is a normal procedure among the student senators. They use this moment of silence to reflect on their duty and responsibilities associated with their calling. It is a tradition practiced in many organizations. The second was for fellow Weber State University student, Raechele Elton. Elton was raped then stabbed to death at the hands of a young man she was trying to help. Elton, 21, was a criminaljustice major and expected to graduate this December. She worked at a youth independent living home in Clearfield. Ryan Starks, WSU Student Association president, attended Do-gooders do spring break By Brad Fidler sr. news reporter The Signpost With spring break fast approaching, many students are planning vacations to southern Utah and elsewhere. Weber State University's Volunteer Involvement Program offers students more, with an alternative to the typical spring break vacation. "Alternative Spring Break is an opportunity for students at Weber State to take a vacation and volunteer at the same time," said Blake Fessler, Alternative Spring Break chairman. "We sign up with an organization and do volunteer work." For the last few years, Alternative Spring Break has joined forces with Habitat for Flumanity to build homes for low-income families in various areas. Flabitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit housing program with a goal to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world. Past trips widi Habitat for Humanity have been to San Fernando, Calif.; Spokane, Wash.; and Albuquerque, NM. This year the group is going to Oakland, Calif. "We work four out of the five days from about 8 in die morning to about 4 in the afternoon," Fessler said. "We build houses with odier university students from across die ItoirjiriMlM'5' Elton's funeral services. "It's a very sad siuiaiion," Starks said. "I think it would be very appropriate for the senate to be mindful of her and her family the next few weeks." Starks also wants to make sure the student senate is mindful of forthcoming students and faculty members who pass away. "I think it would be a good idea for one of the senators to come up with some type of change to either the policies or bylaws," Starks said. "And enforce the senate to take a moment of silence and maybe have a brief overview of any student or faculty member who passes away." This week the Hispanic Area Council will continue holding their Hispanic emphasis week. On Thursday, March 2 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. all students are invited to come to the diversity See Senate page 3 nation and we have a good time giving back to the community and experience something new." Widi three other universities, the group plans to build six houses for six families in the area during the week. "A great tiling about 1 Iabitat for Humanity is that the families, or die owners who are going to have the house, have to put a certain amount of time and effort into it as well," Fessler said. " They come on die weekends and after work. So it's not just a giveaway, they have to put some effort into it as well." Fessler said the Volunteer Involvement Program will plan to charter a bus from Weber State to keep the cost of the trip to a minimum, and the group will be accommodated at a local church. The $100 cost includes transportation, housing and food. "I don't know if there's any spring break trip that you could go on for $100 and have everything provided foryou," Fessler said. "A lot of people have already been to St. George and done the whole spring break Uiing, and been there and done that. They should come and give this a try." Fessler said diat there would be a lot of free time in which students attending can visit various sites See Break page 5 '7 the boundary between being an outlaw and a law-abiding citizen was kind of blurry," he said. "People had the habit of rounding up cows that may or may not have belonged to them and claiming them as their own." One of die main features of the presentation was Crininici's discussion of the effects human intervention has had on the monument's environment. According to die presentation, ycarsoffircsuppression created an environment where sagebrush has run rampant across some of die grasslands in die area. In addition to natural species getting out of sink dianks to die lack of fires, exotic species of plants (tamarisk) and animals (like See Dinosaur page 5

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WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY The X Golf team in full swing see page 8 Vegas fun for uncleragers see wge 6 2 .LAS VEGAS. F V A O A WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2006 wsusignpost.com VOLUME 68 ISSUE 69 C ,3 3:.'3 G3I35 Panel to discuss suicide The Social Work Department is sponsoring a suicide awareness and prevention seminar today at noon in the Shepherd Union Building Wildcat Theater. A five-member panel will discuss the signs a suicidal person exhibits and explain how to help someone who is threatening to commit suicide. Election packets due today Weber State University Student Association elections packets are due today at 4 p.m. in the Student Association office Room 250 in the Shepherd Union Building. As of'Tuesday, four students had submitted packets, but the office has given out hundreds of them. Wildcats United is the only registered party. Weber State University hosts faculty forum Faculty members will display their work at the second annual faculty forum, "A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Activities" on March 2 in the Shepherd Union Building. Posters, papers and performances will be presented from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All seven colleges will be represented. F.AnnMillner.WSU president, and Michael Vaughan, WSU provost, will speak at the ceremony. Faculty, staff, students and the general public are invited to attend. For a complete list of the presentation schedule, visit faculty.weber.edu forum. WSU sponsors conference for women A series of presentations and workshops will be held Saturday, March 1 1 from 8 a.m. to 1 :30 p.m. during the Aspire Higher in the Game of Life conference. The conference costs $10 per person. The topics for discussion include leadership, dating and relationships, scholarships and financial aid, time-management and creating a home-based business. The seminars are designed for women of all ages. Women in attendance will have the opportunity to win a $500 scholarship. Poet, playwright and actor Carol Lynn Pearson will be the keynote speaker. She will perform her one-woman play "Mother Wove the Morning" Saturday, March 1 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Shepherd Union Building Wildcat Theater. The price of admission is $10. A free reception will be held Friday, March 10 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Universe City Gallery, 2556 Washington Blvd., Ogdcn. The conference is sponsored by eight organizations, including WSU's Services forWomen Students, Women's Studies and the WSU Student Association. For more information or to register for the conference, call 626-6090. 1 . II 10 T ft j Joe Cravens yells at a referee during a men's basketball game earlier this season. Cravens was released from his duties as head coach of the basketball team Monday after coaching two back-to-back losing seasons. He has two years left on his contract and will be offered another position within Wildcat Athletics. Cravens out after second losing season By Jon McBride sports editor The Signpost After two consecutive losing seasons, and a last-place finish in the Big Sky Conference, Weber State University men's basketball Head Coach loe Cravens was released from his duties Monday morning, along with much of his coaching staff. Although many factors are involved in the decision of letting a coach go, WSU Athletic Director Jerry Graybeal said that it was just this final weekend of play that added "finality" to the decision. "As a coach you strive for consistency, and you strive for winning that's the bottom line," Graybeal said. "As coaches, you try to win all of the time, but there is a mark of consistency that can provide stability. Unfortunately, in the last couple years we haven't maintained that." Consistency was especially a factor in this last season as the Wildcats started off the season winning five straight games, then losing six straight games, followed by three straight wins, A view of the Green River as it runs through Dinosaur National Monument. The monument is located near Vernal, Utah and bridges the border to Colorado. The two major rivers that flow through the monument, the Green River and the Yampa River, are threatened by exotic species, controlled burning and other forms of human intervention, according to Hal Crimmel, WSU English professor and Dinosaur National Monument researcher. WSU professor shares views on Dinosaur National Monument's Green, Yampa rivers By Jason Staley managing editor The Signpost English professor Hal Crimmel filled the Weber State University Alumni Center Monday widi more than 50 audience members to hear his presentation "A Place of Rivers: The Canyons of Dinosaur National Monument." Crimmel was February's Weber Historical Society speaker. Crinimel's presentation was about the importance, the history and die troubles of die rivers at die national OS IS0 li then seven straight losses, four straight wins and ending with four straight losses. The roller coaster of emotions and success meant tire Wildcats did not make the Big Sky tournament for the first time since 1981. But consistency wasn't always a problem for Cravens. The 2002-2003 season will never be forgotten. In that season he led the Wildcats to a Big Sky title, a perfect record in Big Sky play and he was named Coach of the Year. He will also be remembered for being a part of the infamous upset over the University of North Carolina in the first round of the 1999 NCAA tournament. Former Weber State center Joey Haws was a part of the 1999 team and said Cravens played a significant part in that game as the assistant coach. "He played a major role in putting a game plan together the defenses, the scouting," Haws said. "As an assistant coach I respected him greatly because he never got put of line." Haws was at the coaches' luncheon on Monday where the monument. Crinimel's appreciation for die national monument began because ofhislove for rivers and in trying to get to know Utah, he told die audience. The other thing diat interested him about die place was that it was a cold desert widi an extreme temperature flux from 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer to minus 40 in die winter. "It is not what most people diink of when you think of desert; it is cold desert," Crimmel said. "I said to mv friend Rex Burrow, 'Rex, I had n u OA announcement was made. He said it was the first time he had been to the luncheon in two years; he just decided to go on that specific day, not knowing there were any plans fo' an announcement. He was visiting with some acquaintances and was shocked at the news. "It's a tough situation, it's a tough business to be in and in sports in general, college or pro, you've got to win, that's the bottom line," Flaws said. Sean Moore was another former player of Cravens in 1999. He said it was sad hearing the news but said even with the bottom line of winning, he has taken away from the game more than that. "After you're around basketball for a while you kind of forget the wins and losses you had with guys, but you always remember the relationships you build," Moore said. Cravens' relationship with Moore affected him a great deal. Moore is now the head basketball coach at St. Joseph Fligh School in Ogden. Moore said Cravens is See Cravens page 9 have a desire to go to Mongolia (another cold desert).' I le said, i Ial, why would you want to go to Mongolia? Just go to Wyoming.'" Throughout the presentation, Crimmel tossed historical anecdotes about the area. Most of the stories were about the John Wesley Powell expedition down die Colorado River drainage. Other stories included oudavvs such as Butch Cassidy and die Sundance Kid, who hid in the area of Brown's park in Dinosaur National Monument. Outlaws hid out in die area because it was close to diree states, so if die local law enforcement was after die oudaws, die outiaws could slip into anodier state. "Brown's Dark was also attractive because Student senate remembers Elton By Nate Bringhurst campus affairs editor The Signpost This week the Weber State University Student Association Student Senate meeting started and ended in the same way with a moment of silence. The first moment of silence is a normal procedure among the student senators. They use this moment of silence to reflect on their duty and responsibilities associated with their calling. It is a tradition practiced in many organizations. The second was for fellow Weber State University student, Raechele Elton. Elton was raped then stabbed to death at the hands of a young man she was trying to help. Elton, 21, was a criminaljustice major and expected to graduate this December. She worked at a youth independent living home in Clearfield. Ryan Starks, WSU Student Association president, attended Do-gooders do spring break By Brad Fidler sr. news reporter The Signpost With spring break fast approaching, many students are planning vacations to southern Utah and elsewhere. Weber State University's Volunteer Involvement Program offers students more, with an alternative to the typical spring break vacation. "Alternative Spring Break is an opportunity for students at Weber State to take a vacation and volunteer at the same time," said Blake Fessler, Alternative Spring Break chairman. "We sign up with an organization and do volunteer work." For the last few years, Alternative Spring Break has joined forces with Habitat for Flumanity to build homes for low-income families in various areas. Flabitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit housing program with a goal to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world. Past trips widi Habitat for Humanity have been to San Fernando, Calif.; Spokane, Wash.; and Albuquerque, NM. This year the group is going to Oakland, Calif. "We work four out of the five days from about 8 in die morning to about 4 in the afternoon," Fessler said. "We build houses with odier university students from across die ItoirjiriMlM'5' Elton's funeral services. "It's a very sad siuiaiion," Starks said. "I think it would be very appropriate for the senate to be mindful of her and her family the next few weeks." Starks also wants to make sure the student senate is mindful of forthcoming students and faculty members who pass away. "I think it would be a good idea for one of the senators to come up with some type of change to either the policies or bylaws," Starks said. "And enforce the senate to take a moment of silence and maybe have a brief overview of any student or faculty member who passes away." This week the Hispanic Area Council will continue holding their Hispanic emphasis week. On Thursday, March 2 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. all students are invited to come to the diversity See Senate page 3 nation and we have a good time giving back to the community and experience something new." Widi three other universities, the group plans to build six houses for six families in the area during the week. "A great tiling about 1 Iabitat for Humanity is that the families, or die owners who are going to have the house, have to put a certain amount of time and effort into it as well," Fessler said. " They come on die weekends and after work. So it's not just a giveaway, they have to put some effort into it as well." Fessler said the Volunteer Involvement Program will plan to charter a bus from Weber State to keep the cost of the trip to a minimum, and the group will be accommodated at a local church. The $100 cost includes transportation, housing and food. "I don't know if there's any spring break trip that you could go on for $100 and have everything provided foryou," Fessler said. "A lot of people have already been to St. George and done the whole spring break Uiing, and been there and done that. They should come and give this a try." Fessler said diat there would be a lot of free time in which students attending can visit various sites See Break page 5 '7 the boundary between being an outlaw and a law-abiding citizen was kind of blurry," he said. "People had the habit of rounding up cows that may or may not have belonged to them and claiming them as their own." One of die main features of the presentation was Crininici's discussion of the effects human intervention has had on the monument's environment. According to die presentation, ycarsoffircsuppression created an environment where sagebrush has run rampant across some of die grasslands in die area. In addition to natural species getting out of sink dianks to die lack of fires, exotic species of plants (tamarisk) and animals (like See Dinosaur page 5